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Thu, 24 May 2018 19:15:24 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/By: www.browser9.comhttps://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2010/05/31/did-humans-evolve-to-fill-a-cognitive-niche/#comment-93284
Sat, 16 Apr 2011 23:20:38 +0000http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/?p=12758#comment-932840.. Corking 🙂
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Tue, 08 Feb 2011 15:54:32 +0000http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/?p=12758#comment-76157[…] Pinker’s theory is plausible but ultimately speculative and untestable. Pinker proposes using genetic testing within and across species to identify genes that were selected for whose effects are concentrated in intelligence, language, or sociality. This may not be as easy or plausible as it sounds for reasons very eloquently summarised over at “Why Evolution is True“. […]
]]>By: Lucyintheskyhttps://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2010/05/31/did-humans-evolve-to-fill-a-cognitive-niche/#comment-61489
Thu, 25 Nov 2010 18:26:49 +0000http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/?p=12758#comment-61489I don’t think there had to be “something else” in the niche before we “got there”… The cognitive niche is supposed to be created by our manipulative interaction with the environment, that is, it was not “there” before we began manipulating things and creating it at the same time (backtracking, I suppose it began to look like what we would call a niche in some moment, but not independently of our own action) . Our colective manipulation of the environment lead its configuration…
]]>By: Delirioushttps://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2010/05/31/did-humans-evolve-to-fill-a-cognitive-niche/#comment-30956
Thu, 17 Jun 2010 19:07:16 +0000http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/?p=12758#comment-30956The “cognitive niche” concept has 1 more problem(which was addressed, though somewhat weakly): there would have to have been something else that occupied such a niche before we did. As far as we know, nothing of the sort has(unless the K-T extinction really WAS caused by intelligent dinosaurs).

The way I see it, we developed our intelligence for defense, i.e. our ancestors had to think differently out in the unforgiving grasslands. As a family, apes have few self-defenses beyond strength or agility, which (I guess) didn’t cut it out in the grasslands. We attempted to remedy this by having children year-round, but this was only a temporary fix. Thus, we found a form of self-defense in the use of our very environment, in the form of sticks, stones, bones, etc. From that, we gained an inquisitive and creative nature, so we could figure out how to use different things as weapons (which is probably to blame for our use of fire).